Dear Editor: Your reporter did not cover the 1/25/00 town council meeting so I would like to comment on something I consider to be interesting and worth reporting. During the remarks from the citizens portion of that meeting, I asked Mayor Elwell why he didn’t appoint his father Howie Elwell to the SMUA. It was the mayor’s appointment to make, and in my opinion his father would have been an excellent choice. I have received a subpoena to give testimony in behalf of the Mayo, Lynch & Associates Civil Suit. As I think over that period of time I cannot help recalling how Howie Elwell fought Amico and Impreveduto. How they ridiculed him and me as well, time after time after time. The grin on Amico and Impreveduto’s face and the look of disappointment on Howie Elwell’s face when they did not reappoint him, remains etched in my mind to this very day. I bet you all the tea in China, Howie would have been delighted to be appointed by his son, now the Mayor of Secaucus, to be back on the SMUA if for no other reason than to look Amico and Impreveduto straight in the eye and say, “I’m Back!!!!! Let’s face it, Howie has got to be disappointed. I must admit that I was disappointed when then Councilman Elwell voted in favor of replacing me on the Secaucus Housing Authority. His logic as explained to me through a surrogate, was that the mayor and four other councilmen were going to vote not to reappoint me so his voting for me would have had no bearing on the outcome. Another scenario, again through another surrogate, was that he had to vote against my reappointment to the SHA to show his loyalty to Impreveduto. Some logic, some loyalty, towards me, someone who supported him from day one. Wake up Dennis. I believe that the public confidence in Mayor Elwell is put at risk when he attempts to buy the favor of his enemies at the expense of his friends/supporters. Now that Elwell is Mayor, some of his appointments and the logic, or lack of same, makes me wonder. Who’s calling the shots on some of these appointments – Mayor Elwell or Anthony Impreveduto? When Robert Kickey was appointed to fill Elwell’s council seat, the vote was 6-0. The logic Elwell employed was, “he earned it; he attended every council meeting for the eight years I served on the council and attended most of the SMUA meetings too.” In my opinion what he should have said was, “I want Bob Kickey, he’s my loyal friend, period.” If he would have said only that it would have satisfied me and many others who up until the time he teamed up with Impreveduto in the last election, believed Elwell to be a stand up guy, open and loyal. That would have set him aside from Impreveduto’s way of thinking. Let’s face it, the word “loyalty” is not in Anthony Impreveduto’s vocabulary. Look at the job he did on Clancy. Recently, Elwell made appointments to the SMUA and library board. He also appointed his secretary. That appointment I’ll address at a later date. But for now let’s examine the logic of these two appointments, the Library Board and the SMUA. He appoints someone who sat on the SMUA to the library board because that person informs him that he desires to serve on that board believing his experience as a retired teacher and school administrator would be better suited on the library board. Because of this person resigning from the SMUA Elwell now must appoint a replacement to the SMUA. Now you would think because of the “logic” Elwell employed with the Kickey appointment and the Library appointment, that being [experience/attendance] he would have appointed his father, Howie Elwell. That logic being, “he earned it, he attended most if not all SMUA meetings.” The record shows that his father sat on the authority during that period of time that the town of Secaucus was being ripped off. Who has a better frame of reference of what took place at that point in time? Some of the powers that be at that time were then Mayor Amico, and then Councilman Impreveduto. The very same people you now Mayor Dennis Elwell find yourself in bed with. Dennis you missed a golden opportunity to appoint someone to a position who would have done you proud. Tom Troyer